Lustral

adj, name

adj, name ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to (ritual) purification.

    "So the men change along my changeless stream, And change their faiths; but I yield all alike Sweet water for their drinking, sweet as wine, And pure sweet water for their lustral rites: For thirty generations of my corn Outlast a generation of my men, And thirty generations of my men Outlast a generation of their gods."

  2. 2
    Of or relating to a lustrum, or period of five years.

    "a lustral cycle"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of Zoloft. UK

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abstergentapologeticasceticatoningcatharticcleaning

Example

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"Saved beyond hope and glad the land is won, / and lustral rites, with blazing altars, pay / to Jove, and make the shores of Actium gay / with Ilian games, as, like our sires, we strip / and oil our sinews for the wrestler's play. / Proud, thus escaping from the foemen's grip, / past all the Argive towns, through swarming Greeks, to slip."

Etymology

From Latin lūstrālis, from lūstrum (“purificatory sacrifice”); compare French lustral. See lustrum.

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